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OMG, Ben Affleck Is Playing the Husband in the Gone Girl Movie

OK, this might be the most magical casting of the year. Are you ready? Ben Affleck is circling the role of Nick Dunne, the husband character from Gone Girl, in the big-screen adaptation being directed by David Fincher and produced by Reese Witherspoon.

The gasp I let out upon hearing this was almost, like, actually reading-Gone-Girl level. It's just so perfect. Nobody does frustrated like Ben Affleck. We're totally gonna get to see him do that yelling thing where his voice cracks at the end, and then he just kind of pants and stares at you like you killed his dog, and he's being really brave about it, but once this hurting passes he is gonna get you. Oh, he is gonna get you if it's the last thing he does.

That's the one.

All that remains to be seen now is whether Reese will step into the lead role of Amy. I have a crazy idea: What if Jennifer Garner played Amy? I would love to see them do something opposite each other (not the blind-superhero movie, I remember, I know—something else). And they'd be so evenly matched in these roles.

What do you think of Ben for the part of Nick?

Photo: IMDB

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Megan AngeloEntertainment writer. I love talking about TV so much, you'll eventually back slowly away from me at a party.